GRE Word List
GRISLY
inspiring horror or intense fear
The meaning of the word grisly is inspiring horror or intense fear.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| arch- | a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening) |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |