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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |