GRE Word List
OBSOLETE
no longer in use or no longer useful
The meaning of the word obsolete is no longer in use or no longer useful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| environ | encircle |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |