GRE Word List
SORDID
marked by baseness or grossness : vile
The meaning of the word sordid is marked by baseness or grossness : vile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| ravenous | rapacious |