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 |
|---|---|
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |