GRE Word List
CIRCUMLOCUTION
the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
The meaning of the word circumlocution is the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dominate | rule |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| amity | friendship |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |