GRE Word List
DESERTS
arid land with usually sparse vegetation
The meaning of the word deserts is arid land with usually sparse vegetation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| laud | praise |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| connoisseur | expert |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |