GRE Word List
GLOSSY
having a surface luster or brightness
The meaning of the word glossy is having a surface luster or brightness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| dilute | attenuate |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| occident | west |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |