GRE Word List
VOCIFEROUS
marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
The meaning of the word vociferous is marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |