GRE Word List
MACABRE
having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
The meaning of the word macabre is having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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frail | easily led into evil |
log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
figure | a number symbol : numeral |
endorse | to write on the back of |
swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
chastise | to censure severely : castigate |