GRE Word List
ELOQUENCE
discourse marked by force and persuasiveness
The meaning of the word eloquence is discourse marked by force and persuasiveness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |