GRE Word List
GRUESOME
inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly
The meaning of the word gruesome is inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| junket | trip |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| veracious | truthful |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |