GRE Word List
SENTENTIOUS
given to or abounding in aphoristic expression
The meaning of the word sententious is given to or abounding in aphoristic expression.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mortician | undertaker |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |