GRE Word List
ABHOR
to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe
The meaning of the word abhor is to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
