GRE Word List
EERIE
so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine
The meaning of the word eerie is so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |