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Today is a quiet day.
Quiet day across North America — nothing specifically on the books in United States. Browse the calendar for what's coming.
And the word is grandiloquent.
/ɡɹænˈdɪl.ə.kwənt/adjectivestretch
(of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.
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A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.
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Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.
