GRE Word List
VERBIAGE
a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
The meaning of the word verbiage is a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| wry | twist |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |