GRE Word List
ACUTE
characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
The meaning of the word acute is characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| dynamo | generator |