GRE Word List
GRUELING
trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing
The meaning of the word grueling is trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |