[Visual Vocabulary] Turgid and Flaccid

[Sandesh Kumar Sodhi]

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Turgid
swollen
In figurative sense it is used to describe boring, complicated and hard to understand.

• A turgid game provided some welcome entertainment in the closing minutes
  
• Residents on foot maneuvered their way over the undercut road as massive trees with intact root wads floated by in the turgid waters of Spring Creek.
• After some 23 pages of turgid reasoning, they opined that "committed same-sex couples must be afforded on equal terms the same rights and benefits enjoyed by married opposite-sex couples."

Flash Phrase: Turgid tummy


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Flaccid
soft and weak; not firm and hard
Usage examples:

• For the most part, in this volume, the author is content with lazy and flaccid arguments, and the book fails as a result.
• Flaccid effort/defense.

Flash Phrase: Flaccid film.
Usage example: This this flaccid film feels like an exercise in exasperation. No one is likeable, and they have nothing interesting to say.

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Posted By Sandesh Kumar Sodhi to Visual Vocabulary at 11/13/2006 09:18:00 AM