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 |
|---|---|
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |