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 |
|---|---|
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |