pontification
affectation, big talk, convolution, flatulence, gaudiness, grandiloquence, inflation, ostentation, pomposity, pretension, rhetoric, self-importance, sensationalism, stuffiness ,
climacteric - charged, clutch, convergence of events, crisis, critical, critical juncture, critical point, crossroads, crucial, crucial period, crunch, decisive, desperate, dire, emergency,
forefathers - ancestors, antecedent, elder, family, forebears, lineage, patriarch, predecessor, progenitor, root ,
abound with - abound, bristle with, clutter, crawl with, creep with, crowd, jam, multiply, pack, swarm, swarm with, teem, throng ,
unopened - blank, blind, caecal, closed, constricted, contracted, dead, dead end, shut, strangulated, unventilated ,
pussyfoot - about the bush, around the bush, be careful, be cautious, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, couch, crawl, creep, dodge, duck,
lapse - abeyance, about-face, advance, alchemy, apostasy, apostatize, assimilation, assumption, atavism, atheism, atrocity, backing, backslide, backsliding, backward deviation,
dressed to kill - chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, elegant, exquisite, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh,
slobbery - bland, complimentary, courtly, effusive, fawning, flattering, fulsome, gushing, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, oily, slimy,
in anticipation - agape, agog, ahead, anticipating, anticipatory, before, beforehand, betimes, certain, confident, eager, early, expectant, expecting, forearmed,
narrow-hearted - authoritarian, bigoted, closed, constricted, cramped, deaf, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, mean, narrow, narrow gauge, near-sighted,
forefathers - ancestors, antecedent, elder, family, forebears, lineage, patriarch, predecessor, progenitor, root ,
abound with - abound, bristle with, clutter, crawl with, creep with, crowd, jam, multiply, pack, swarm, swarm with, teem, throng ,
unopened - blank, blind, caecal, closed, constricted, contracted, dead, dead end, shut, strangulated, unventilated ,
pussyfoot - about the bush, around the bush, be careful, be cautious, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, couch, crawl, creep, dodge, duck,
lapse - abeyance, about-face, advance, alchemy, apostasy, apostatize, assimilation, assumption, atavism, atheism, atrocity, backing, backslide, backsliding, backward deviation,
dressed to kill - chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, elegant, exquisite, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh,
slobbery - bland, complimentary, courtly, effusive, fawning, flattering, fulsome, gushing, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, mealy-mouthed, obsequious, oily, slimy,
in anticipation - agape, agog, ahead, anticipating, anticipatory, before, beforehand, betimes, certain, confident, eager, early, expectant, expecting, forearmed,
narrow-hearted - authoritarian, bigoted, closed, constricted, cramped, deaf, fanatical, hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, mean, narrow, narrow gauge, near-sighted,