GRE Word List
BOMBAST
pretentious inflated speech or writing
The meaning of the word bombast is pretentious inflated speech or writing.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| poise | balance |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| rift | fissure |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |