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 |
|---|---|
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |