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 |
|---|---|
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |