GRE Word List
HIDEOUS
offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly
The meaning of the word hideous is offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| document | proof |