Bombastic GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
Bombastic GRE Vocabulary Flashcard bɒmˈbæs.tɪk/ (adj) Definition using difficult words to show you’re more important than you really are, pompous, long-winded, magniloquent, declamatory, verbose, euphuistic, pretentious, turgid, grandiloquent, affected, sonorous, ostentatious, grandiose, high-flown, orotund, rhetorical Example The word verbosity comes from Latin verbosus, “wordy”. There are many other English words that also refer to the … Read more
Tags: affected, bombastic, grandiose, long-winded, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, verbose
This lesson was published on Jul 15, 2021 by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl