GRE Word List

GRANDILOQUENT

a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language

The meaning of the word grandiloquent is a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language.

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pyromaniaca person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania
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licentiouslacking legal or moral restraints
billowwave
tacitexpressed or carried on without words or speech
extrinsicnot forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous
spendthrifta person who spends improvidently or wastefully
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inciteto move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on
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