GRE Word List
HUMDRUM
monotonous
The meaning of the word humdrum is monotonous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| render | to melt down |