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 |
|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| retrench | cut down |
| paradigm | example |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |