GRE Word List
INVIDIOUS
designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison
The meaning of the word invidious is designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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blowhard | talkative boaster; braggart |
veer | change in direction; swerve |
noose | loop formed in a rope |
curfew | regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew |
valediction | saying farewell; expression of leave-taking |
delusion | false belief; hallucination; deluding; Ex. delusions of grandeur; Ex. under the delusion that |
incinerate | burn to ashes |
tactful | careful no to cause offence; OP. tactless |
illusive | deceiving; based on illusion; causing illusion; deceptive |
injurious | harmful; causing injury |