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 |
|---|---|
| boor | peasant |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| sentinel | sentry |