turgid
swollen, or pompous and overblown in language
Word origin: From Latin turgere, to swell.
Turgid in a sentence
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His turgid prose buried a simple idea under layers of needless ornament.
The report's turgid prose buried its few useful findings under paragraphs of inflated jargon.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
Modern editors have softened many passages that earlier audiences accepted without protest, finding blank what their grandparents had regarded as merely robust and good-humored.
Using “turgid” well
Turgid means either physically swollen or, of language, pompous and overblown. In academic critique the second sense dominates; do not confuse it with turbid, which means cloudy or muddy.
More GRE words starting with T
understood or implied without being openly stated
habitually reserved and uncommunicative in speech
only loosely relevant; diverging from the main point
perceptible by touch or concrete enough to be grasped
to twist together into a confused or knotted mass
equivalent in effect or value to something else
to dull or damage the luster, reputation, or purity of something
needlessly repeating an idea using different words
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