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 |
|---|---|
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| junket | trip |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |