GRE Word List
GRIMACE
a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain
The meaning of the word grimace is a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| realm | kingdom |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |