GRE Word List
BLEAK
exposed and barren and often windswept
The meaning of the word bleak is exposed and barren and often windswept.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| diadem | crown |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |