GRE Word List
GORY
covered with gore : bloodstained
The meaning of the word gory is covered with gore : bloodstained.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| finished | entirely done |
| random | a haphazard course |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| 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 |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |