GRE Word List
OBSCURE
dark
The meaning of the word obscure is dark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| pummel | pound |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |