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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |