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pontificate on
pontificate on something
to speak and act dogmatically and pompously. Must you pontificate on your own virtues so much? The speaker was pontificating on the virtues of a fat-free diet.
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Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Nedelka | | - | Macedonian |
Cas | | - | Dutch |
Rupa | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Nepali |
Bohuslav | | bo-hoo-SLAHV (Ukrainian) | Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian |
Moisey | | mah-ee-SYAY | Russian |
Kirils | | - | Latvian |