GRE Word List
AUSTERE
stern and cold in appearance or manner
The meaning of the word austere is stern and cold in appearance or manner.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| dingy | dirty |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| primal | original |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |