Difference between High-flown and Pretentious

High-flown

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative lofty, extravagant, refined

Pretentious

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinctionOstentatious; intended to impress others

Example sentence: Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.