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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| residual | remainder |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |