The Word of August 10, 2011 - pretentious

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Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “P” and has 11 letters long.

Paul tries not to sound too p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ whilst writing about himself in the third person.
You spent 10.5 hours composing your profile and changed the movie choices twice because it was skewing too self-consciously p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to say that her work appears to utilize intelligence as a sixth sense?

Can you guess the word of the day?

The word of the day is an adjective means “intended to attract notice and impress others; trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are, especially in matters of art and literature”.

P.S. Thank you Adnan jan for today's word. :)

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Comment by SkoonAlBahr on August 11, 2011 at 21:59: Here, you can listen and see other examples for the word "pretentious".

If you want to discuss about this word "pretentious", please go to the discussion of this word in our group here!

Comment by SkoonAlBahr on August 11, 2011 at 21:56: The word is "pretentious" answered by Luty, jenny 1, and feaona. According to our strategy of this month, the winners are participators in the position of even numbers; 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th ...etc participators which means jenny 1 is the winner. She gets a score in our August's scoreboard.