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 |
|---|---|
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |