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 |
|---|---|
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| schism | division |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| duration | continuance in time |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |