GRE Word List
BLUNT
having an edge or point that is not sharp
The meaning of the word blunt is having an edge or point that is not sharp.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| statutory | of or relating to statutes |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |