GRE Word List
AWFUL
extremely disagreeable or objectionable
The meaning of the word awful is extremely disagreeable or objectionable.
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libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
aloft | at or to a great height |
sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |