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 |
|---|---|
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| amend | to put right |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| behemoth | a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God |