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 |
|---|---|
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| enamored | affected by strong feelings of love, admiration, or fascination |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| slag | the dross or scoria of a metal |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |