GRE Word List
GHASTLY
terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening
The meaning of the word ghastly is terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening.
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quarry | game |
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harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
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adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |