GRE Word List
GAUDY
ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented
The meaning of the word gaudy is ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| quarry | game |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |