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 |
|---|---|
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| pundit | pandit |
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| categorical | absolute |