GRE Word List
PRETENTIOUS
characterized by pretension: such as
The meaning of the word pretentious is characterized by pretension: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| mulct | fine |
| mystic | mystical |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |