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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |