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 |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |