GRE Word List
SQUALOR
the quality or state of being squalid
The meaning of the word squalor is the quality or state of being squalid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |