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 |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| trenchant | keen |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |