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 |
|---|---|
| clime | climate |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| hirsute | hairy |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |