GRE Word List
FLORID
very flowery in style : ornate
The meaning of the word florid is very flowery in style : ornate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |