grandstand
C1CEFR level
62/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To make a showy display meant to impress an audience rather than to settle.
The rival's lawyer grandstanded for the board while the real haggling happened in the corridor.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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