GRE Word List
HOARY
gray or white with or as if with age
The meaning of the word hoary is gray or white with or as if with age.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |