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 |
|---|---|
| rustle | to make or cause a rustle |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |