GRE Word List
GOSSAMER
a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
The meaning of the word gossamer is a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |