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 |
|---|---|
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| collected | gathered together |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |