GRE Word List
CEREMONIOUS
devoted to forms and ceremony
The meaning of the word ceremonious is devoted to forms and ceremony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| quarry | game |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| concatenate | linked together |