GRE Word List
GRANDIOSE
characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration
The meaning of the word grandiose is characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| rider | one that rides |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |