• noun:   the act of filling something with air
• noun:   (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
• noun:   a general and progressive increase in prices

  Example: "In inflation everything gets more valuable except money"

• noun:   lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

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