GRE Word List

OSTENTATIOUS

attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation

The meaning of the word ostentatious is attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation.

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impetusa driving force : impulse
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
incrementthe amount or degree by which something changes
figurativerepresenting by a figure or resemblance : emblematic
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abjectsunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe
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insularitycharacteristic of an isolated people
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