GRE Word List
BUST
a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast
The meaning of the word bust is a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| whimsy | whim |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| brackish | somewhat salty |