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 |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| historic | historical |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| appease | pacify |
| cordon | an ornamental cord or ribbon |