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 |
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| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
| addle | rotten |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |