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 |
|---|---|
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| brocade | a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |