GRE Word List
POMPOSITY
pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior
The meaning of the word pomposity is pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| opulence | wealth |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |