GRE Word List
SANGUINARY
bloodthirsty
The meaning of the word sanguinary is bloodthirsty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |