GRE Word List
GRANDIOSE
characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration
The meaning of the word grandiose is characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| eventual | contingent |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| pudding | blood sausage |