GRE Word List
GAUDY
ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented
The meaning of the word gaudy is ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| actuary | clerk |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |