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 |
|---|---|
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |