GRE Word List
TURGID
excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic
The meaning of the word turgid is excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| overwhelm | upset |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |