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Swollen — whether it's an ankle or a politician's prose.
means Describes something puffed up or distended, either physically bloated or rhetorically pompous and overblown.
from From Latin tumidus, swollen, from tumere, to swell — the same root that bulges into tumor and tumult.
Double dutyMeans both medically swollen and verbally bombastic.
Family treeCousin to tumor, tumult, and tumescent.
Critics' favoriteA polite way to call writing windbaggy.