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 |
|---|---|
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |