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 |
|---|---|
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |