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Word of the Day: Bombastic
Bombastic is a word used to describe a person who likes to use long and complicated words.
They usually do this to make themselves seem more intelligent or more important than they really are.
In most cases, people do not enjoy listening to bombastic speakers.
People do not enjoy listening to other people speak over their heads.
Preachers, teachers, politicians, doctors and ‘specialists’ can, at times, do this.
Preachers can lose followers.
Teachers can lose students, and physicians can lose patients because they are bombastic.
What about politicians?
Well, being bombastic is part of what it means to be a politician, I suppose.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 60.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.