GRE Word List
NONSENSE
words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
The meaning of the word nonsense is words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |