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 |
|---|---|
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| collected | gathered together |
| abase | to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |