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 |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
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| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |