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.
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|---|---|
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |