GRE Word List
HUMDRUM
monotonous
The meaning of the word humdrum is monotonous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |