GRE Word List
AWE
an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime
The meaning of the word awe is an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| approbation | commendation |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| growl | rumble |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |