grandiloquent

\gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt\, adjective:
Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic.

"'Minister of Clean-'Em-Ups' is a rather grandiloquent title for our janitor, wouldn't you say?"

"By day I'm a grandiloquent man of letters, but by night I'll have you know I'm... something of a dandy." - Count Lou Ferrigno III, 1857

jejune

 \juh-JOON\, adjective:
1. Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish.

"Oh! Americans; how jejune!"

2. Lacking interest or significance; dull; meager; dry.

"Oh! Picasso; how jejune!"

3. Lacking in nutritive value.

"Oh! Cliff bars; how jejune!"

hoary

\HOR-ee\, adjective:
1. White or gray with age

"Oh yeah?!" yelled shriveled old Mr. Chan from across the dance floor, gray hairs protruding wildly from his nostrils, "If I'm so HOARY, how come I can do the Charleston?"

2. Extremely old; remote in time past.

"Hey, the Sacred Ancient Temple of Lake Titicaca called; it wants its hoariness back!"

somnolent

\SOM-nuh-luhnt\, adjective:

1. Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.

"...but no meet-up group was more somnolent than the WGA, or the 'Wine Guzzlers of America.'"

2. Tending to cause sleepiness or drowsiness.

"It takes talent to be a somnolent cigarette girl, but Daddy always said I was special."

brio

 \BREE-oh\, noun:
Enthusiastic vigor; vivacity; liveliness; spirit

"Genius, determination, strength, brio: These are the words that define the members of the Village People."

"But Charles had no shortage of brio. He literally had buckets of it. And that's not all he had buckets of...

I'll leave it you to decide what that last part means."

"You, me and brio, that makes three-o!"

canard

\kuh-NAHRD\, noun:
1. An unfounded, false, or fabricated report or story.

“...And that was how I discovered that Bigfoot was nothing more than a canard,” reminisced the Loch Ness Monster.

2. A horizontal control and stabilizing surface mounted forward of the main wing of an aircraft.

“That's the last time I take a ride with Freddy ‘Delapidated Canards’ Jackson!”

tchotchke

\CHOCH-kuh\, noun:
A trinket; a knickknack.

"Never judge a man by the size of his tchotchkes." - Ancient Chinese Proverb

"I can't get one producer to even look at my script for Tchotchkes: The Movie."

protean

\PRO-tee-un; pro-TEE-un\, adjective:  

1. Displaying considerable variety or diversity.
2. Readily assuming different shapes or forms.

"The new Handi-Vac 5000 is about as a protean as Lucifer himself, the King of Liars!"

"If you don't think Ted Koppel is protean, take another look at that alley cat that just walked by..."

deja vu

/dey-zhah VOO/, noun

the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

"Murdering this homeless man has left me with a strange feeling of deja vu. And not just because I murder a homeless man every night." - Anon.

"But in this restaurant, deja vu is a dish served up cold, next to an unforgiving slice of pie... usually apple." - Rod Serling, The Early Works Of...

deja vu

/dey-zhah VOO/, noun

the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

"Murdering this homeless man has left me with a strange feeling of deja vu.  And not just because I murder a homeless man every night." - Anon.

"But in this restaurant, deja vu is a dish served up cold, next to an unforgiving slice of pie... usually apple." - Rod Serling, The Early Works Of...

raillery

\RAY-luh-ree\, noun:

1. Good-humored banter or teasing.
2. An instance of good-humored teasing; a jest.

"But all the raillery in Canterbury couldn't distract Roderick from the new growth on Agatha's back."

"You know, if anyone ought to be able to take some raillery, it's a former P.O.W."

doff

\DOF\, transitive verb:

1. To take off, as an article of clothing.
2. To tip or remove (one's hat).
3. To put aside; to rid oneself of.

“TODAY I PLAN TO PATENT MY INVENTION: THE SELF-DOFFING SOCK.” – Anon.

“Push the button when the fat man doffs his hat.  Not a second sooner.”

“Allow me to doff this purple raincoat and these pink polka-dotted galoshes so I may tell you about some of the little-known benefits of investing in a Roth 401k.”