Word of the Week: magniloquent (mag-nil-o-KWENT) Definition (adjective) speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner In Context "It [the television series Billions] features two outsize, magniloquent protagonists who are constant foils to one another: light and dark, good and evil, both cut from the same ambitious cloth and therefore destined to lock in an endless pas de deux of power." Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 1 May 2018