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 |
|---|---|
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| concordat | compact |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| dint | force |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |