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 |
|---|---|
| transcendental | transcendent |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
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| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |