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 |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| portly | dignified |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |