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 |
|---|---|
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |