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 |
|---|---|
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |