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 |
|---|---|
| pudding | blood sausage |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| niggle | trifle |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| bludgeon | a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
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