GRE Word List
HAP
happening
The meaning of the word hap is happening.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |