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turbid (TUR bid) (adjective)
Not clear, heavy with smoke, and characterized by obscurity: "The air in the factory was turbid and it was difficult to see across the room."

"He chose to maintain a turbid lifestyle and rarely went out in public."

turgid (TUR jid) (adjective)
1. Plumped up, swollen, not wilted: "The stalk of celery was turgid and crisp when she bit into it."

"After he hit his thumb with a hammer, it became very turgid and purple."

2. Characterized by a manner that is excessively embellished or bombastic: "The count tended to wear sweeping feathers on his hat and spoke in a turgid manner, using all sorts of glittering and fancy words."

In spite of his turgid lifestyle, the man decided to keep his turbid ancestral background from prying eyes and curious bystanders.

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turgid (adjective), more turgid, most turgid
1. A reference to something which is swollen or bloated: During the heavy rains, the river became more and more turgid and rose dramatically from day to day.
2. Descriptive of language being excessively ornate in expression: Jane wasn't inclined to read any turgid literature which was so complicated, elaborate, and grandiloquent in style as the book that was given to her by her friend Jack.
3. Etymology: Latin turgidus, "swollen, inflated, distended;" from turgere "to swell."
Pertaining to being bombastic or pompous.
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