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 |
|---|---|
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |