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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| sentinel | sentry |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |