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 |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| writ | something written : writing |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| skiff | any of various small boats |
| bauble | trinket |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |