GRE vocabulary
bombast
inflated, pretentious language with little real substance
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In a sentence
Bombast in a sentence
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Beneath the speech's bombast lay no actual plan.
Synonyms
Antonyms
understatementplainness
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Questions about “bombast”
Bombast (noun) means inflated, pretentious language with little real substance
Here is bombast used in an example sentence: "Beneath the speech's bombast lay no actual plan."
Common synonyms for bombast include grandiloquence, pomposity, rhetoric, fustian.
Antonyms of bombast include understatement, plainness.
Bombast is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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