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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
