GRE Word List
PEDANTIC
bookish; showing off learning; marked by an excessive ostentatious concern for book learning; N. pedantry
The meaning of the word pedantic is bookish; showing off learning; marked by an excessive ostentatious concern for book learning; N. pedantry.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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oblivious | inattentive or unmindful; unaware; wholly absorbed; forgetful(having the habit of forgetting) |
pervasive | spread throughout; V. pervade: (of smells, ideas, feelings) spread throughout; charge; permeate |
illusion | misleading vision or visual image; false idea or belief; CF. delusion |
glower | scowl; glare; look or stare angrily |
adversity | great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event |
sibling | brother or sister |
hermitage | home of a hermit |
prescience | ability to foretell the future; knowledge of actions before they occur; ADJ. prescient |
obloquy | slander; disgrace; infamy |
hypothetical | based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed; N. hypothesis |