GRE Word List
SANGUINARY
bloodthirsty
The meaning of the word sanguinary is bloodthirsty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| nourish | nurture |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |