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ostentate

Ostentate

Os"ten*tate\, v. t. [L. ostentatus, p. p. of ostentare, v. intens. fr. ostendere. See Ostent.] To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] --Jer. Taylor.
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Ostentate is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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ostentate

verb
display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car" [syn: flaunt
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