Turgid (swollen) *** Turbid (dark & muddy)

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–adjective 

1. swollen; distended (膨脹擴張); tumid. (腫脹的,文體誇張的)

2. inflated, overblown, 

or 

pompous; bombastic (誇張的): turgid language.  



distend

distended [veins]

The [stomachs] of starving people often distend.





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turbid, turgid (adjs.) 

 

These adjectives look and sound a good bit alike, and since they are both used literally of abnormal conditions of flowing water, they are easy to confuse unless context guides fully. 



Turbid waters are "full of sediment, muddy, and dark," whereas 

turgid waters are "swollen." 





Applied figuratively, the words are perhaps a bit easier to keep separate: 



turgid prose is a fairly common application; it is pompous and overblown, windy and pretentious; 

turbid prose (a much less common application) is dark and muddy, hard to fathom.





　

It’s a hallowed [ritual] of film culture. An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, 



such a turgid [challenge] to sit through 

that 

it sends most people skulking out of the theater 



— except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who [hail] the work as a visionary achievement. 



It happened in 1961, with that high-society puzzle obscura Last Year at Marienbad, and in 2006, with David Lynch’s through-the-looking-glass bore Inland Empire… Now Charlie Kaufman, the [brain]-tickling screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has directed his first movie, Synecdoche, New York (he also wrote it), 



and yes, it is one of those "visionary" what-the-hell doozies. Prepare to be told that it’s a masterpiece. 



egghead

【口】(略帶輕視口吻) 有知識的人,理論家

doozy

【美】【俚】極好的東西,好玩的東西





assuage

to assuage one's [grief] [hunger] [fears]

abate

to abate a [tax] 

to abate one's [enthusiasm]  

The [storm] has abated. 

The [pain] in his shoulder finally abated.  

mitigate

mollify, allay, appease

militate

have effect or influence

This criticism in no way militates [against] your going ahead with your research. 

Nubile