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 |
|---|---|
| amend | to put right |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| 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 |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |