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 |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| dyslexia | a variable often familial learning disability involving difficulties in acquiring and processing language that is typically manifested by a lack of proficiency in reading, spelling, and writing |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| heed | to pay attention |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |