GRE Word List
STILTED
pompous
The meaning of the word stilted is pompous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| whimsy | whim |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |