GRE Word List

GARISH

clothed in vivid colors

The meaning of the word garish is clothed in vivid colors.

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licentiouslacking legal or moral restraints
asunderinto parts
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
tyrannyoppressive power
grotesquea style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature
armadaa fleet of warships
oddsthe probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances
purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
predecessorone that precedes
culinaryof or relating to the kitchen or cookery