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 |
|---|---|
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| steep | lofty |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |