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 |
|---|---|
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| overweening | arrogant |
| calculated | apt |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |