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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| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| osseous | bony |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| functional | of, connected with, or being a function |