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 |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| biennial | occurring every two years |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| decipher | decode |