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 |
|---|---|
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| delve | excavate |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |