GRE Word List
BRAGGADOCIO
empty boasting
The meaning of the word braggadocio is empty boasting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |