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 |
|---|---|
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |