GRE Word List
GLOSSY
having a surface luster or brightness
The meaning of the word glossy is having a surface luster or brightness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |