GRE Word List
BRAGGADOCIO
empty boasting
The meaning of the word braggadocio is empty boasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| bask | to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| inopportune | inconvenient |