GRE Word List
BOMBAST
pretentious inflated speech or writing
The meaning of the word bombast is pretentious inflated speech or writing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |