GRE Word List
ADVERSE
acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile
The meaning of the word adverse is acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| imbue | endow |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |