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 |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |