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 |
|---|---|
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| cataclysm | flood |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |