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 |
|---|---|
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| savory | having savor: such as |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |