GRE Word List
GROSS
glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
The meaning of the word gross is glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |