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 |
|---|---|
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |