GRE Word List
GRACIOUS
marked by kindness and courtesy
The meaning of the word gracious is marked by kindness and courtesy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| clarion | a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |