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 |
|---|---|
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| falter | to walk unsteadily : stumble |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |