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 |
|---|---|
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| brook | creek |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |