GRE Word List
LURID
causing horror or revulsion : gruesome
The meaning of the word lurid is causing horror or revulsion : gruesome.
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| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |