GRE Word List
GARISH
clothed in vivid colors
The meaning of the word garish is clothed in vivid colors.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| lampoon | satire |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |