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 |
|---|---|
| retract | to draw back or in |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |