GRE Word List
GLOSS
a surface luster or brightness : shine
The meaning of the word gloss is a surface luster or brightness : shine.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| statute | a law enacted by the legislative branch of a government |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |