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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |