GRE Word List
COLOSSUS
a statue of gigantic size and proportions
The meaning of the word colossus is a statue of gigantic size and proportions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |