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 |
|---|---|
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| cataclysm | flood |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
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