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To profundify or to profundicate: A Borenverb used to denote the use of thesauric and other enrichment techniques to make a simple idea appear to be profound. […] Graduates of agricultural institutions tend to use "to profundicate" while graduates of ivy league schools tend to use "to profundify".
Source: wiktionary
You should learn to profundify and to profundicate. Those are Boren verbs; they're not in the dictionary yet, but we're working on it and we think we're going to make it. They're being used in Washington now and Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal; and a few others have picked it up.
Source: wiktionary
Profundify or profundicate the speech. Use Roget's Thesaurus to make simple ideas seem profound.
Source: wiktionary
Who has not suffered from “bureaucratese” – turgid unnecessarily complex descriptions that yield only to the most persistent. […] Examples include “mumblistic” (planned mumbling) and “profundicating” (translating simple concepts into obscure jargon) (Boren, 1972). The remedy is to simplify and clarify.
Source: wiktionary
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