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 |
|---|---|
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |