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 |
|---|---|
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| whittle | a large knife |
| demure | reserved |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |