GRE Word List
HIRSUTE
hairy
The meaning of the word hirsute is hairy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |