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 |
|---|---|
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |