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 |
|---|---|
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |