4/6/12

predictable, cliched, boring

syn- bromidic, fatuous, innocuous, insipid, jejune, musty, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, platitudinous, prosaic, shopworn, threadbare, trite, vapid

pompous in speech and manner

syn- bloated, fustian, magniloquent, orotund, rhetorical

harsh, jarring noise

syn- din, discord

changing one's mind quickly and often

syn- arbitrary, fickle, mercurial, whimsical, willful

to punish or criticize harshly

syn-admonish, chide, rebuke, reproach, reprove, tax, upbraid