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 |
|---|---|
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |