GRE Word List
AWFUL
extremely disagreeable or objectionable
The meaning of the word awful is extremely disagreeable or objectionable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |