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 |
|---|---|
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |