GRE Word List
BRAGGADOCIO
empty boasting
The meaning of the word braggadocio is empty boasting.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |