GRE Word List
FOUL
offensive to the senses : loathsome
The meaning of the word foul is offensive to the senses : loathsome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| farce | stuff |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |