GRE Word List
STILTED
pompous
The meaning of the word stilted is pompous.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| scintilla | spark |