GRE Word List
ABOMINABLE
worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable
The meaning of the word abominable is worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| commune | talk over |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |