GRE Word List
HANDSOME
having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance
The meaning of the word handsome is having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| consort | associate |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| ulcer | a break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |