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Topic: LITERATURE

Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: turgidus, from turgere 'to be swollen'

turgid

 adjective
     
tur‧gid formal
1AL turgid writing or speech is boring and difficult to understand [= dull]:
a turgid Social Science textbook
2 full and swollen with liquid or air
—turgidity noun [uncountable]
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