GRE Word List
LURID
causing horror or revulsion : gruesome
The meaning of the word lurid is causing horror or revulsion : gruesome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |