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 |
|---|---|
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| countenance | look |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |