GRE Word List

STILTED

pompous

The meaning of the word stilted is pompous.

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WordMeaning
problematicposing a problem : difficult to solve or decide
distraughtagitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain
melancholydepression of spirits : dejection
sunderto break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
recipientone that receives : receiver
intermediarymediator
jaundiceyellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments
languiddrooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak
narrativesomething that is narrated : story