GRE Word List
GRUESOME
inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly
The meaning of the word gruesome is inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |