GRE Word List
HUMDRUM
monotonous
The meaning of the word humdrum is monotonous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| retiring | reserved |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |