GRE Word List
BRAGGADOCIO
empty boasting
The meaning of the word braggadocio is empty boasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| poise | balance |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| orient | to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |