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 |
|---|---|
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |