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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| pan | a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking) |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |