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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
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