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 |
|---|---|
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |