GRE Word List
GHASTLY
terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening
The meaning of the word ghastly is terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| pummel | pound |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |