GRE Word List
LIVID
discolored by bruising : black-and-blue
The meaning of the word livid is discolored by bruising : black-and-blue.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| billow | wave |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| freebooter | pirate |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |