GRE Word List
GROSS
total; fragrant; clearly wrong; (of people's behavior) coarse; corpulent; Ex. gross insolence/behavior; V: earn as a total amount; N: 12 dozens
The meaning of the word gross is total; fragrant; clearly wrong; (of people's behavior) coarse; corpulent; Ex. gross insolence/behavior; V: earn as a total amount; N: 12 dozens.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peerless | having no equal; incomparable |
| succumb | yield (to something overwhelming); give in; die; Ex. succumb to the illness |
| plaintive | expressing sorrow; mournful; Ex. plaintive song |
| apiarist | person who keeps bees |
| tortuous | winding; full of curves; Ex. tortuous mountain road |
| invert | turn upside down or inside out; reverse the position or condition of |
| abstract | theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational |
| strangle | kill by choking or suffocating; suppress |
| suitor | man who is courting a woman |
| provisional | tentative; temporary |