GRE Word List
SANGUINARY
bloodthirsty
The meaning of the word sanguinary is bloodthirsty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |