GRE Word List
AUGUST
marked by majestic dignity or grandeur
The meaning of the word august is marked by majestic dignity or grandeur.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| lewd | obscene |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |