GRE Word List
GORY
covered with gore : bloodstained
The meaning of the word gory is covered with gore : bloodstained.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| impuissance | weakness |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| pediatrician | a specialist in pediatrics |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| gnome | maxim |