GRE Word List
HOMELY
suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home
The meaning of the word homely is suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |