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 |
|---|---|
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| predecessor | one that precedes |