GRE Word List
GARRULOUS
given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
The meaning of the word garrulous is given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| ram | a male sheep |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |