GRE Word List
CALLOUS
being hardened and thickened
The meaning of the word callous is being hardened and thickened.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| denizen | inhabitant |
| virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| quarry | game |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |