GRE Word List
CEREMONIOUS
devoted to forms and ceremony
The meaning of the word ceremonious is devoted to forms and ceremony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| politic | political |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| desperate | having lost hope |