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 |
|---|---|
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| trance | stupor |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| acclaim | applaud |