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 |
|---|---|
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| docile | easily taught |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| antecede | precede |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |