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 |
|---|---|
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |