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 |
|---|---|
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| plane | airplane |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |