GRE Word List
CALLOUS
being hardened and thickened
The meaning of the word callous is being hardened and thickened.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| paltry | inferior |
| nexus | connection |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| acidulous | somewhat acid or harsh in taste or manner |