GRE Word List
TORTUOUS
winding; full of curves; Ex. tortuous mountain road
The meaning of the word tortuous is winding; full of curves; Ex. tortuous mountain road.
Random words
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chorus | phrase repeated throughout a song or poem |
rostrum | raised platform for speech-making; pulpit |
actuary | someone who advises insurance companies |
voyeur | Peeping Tom; person who derives sexual gratification from observing the sexual acts of others |
insensible | unconscious; unresponsive; insensitive; unaware; imperceptible; Ex. insensible of his danger/to pain; Ex. insensible change; CF. not the opposite of sensible |
impunity | freedom from punishment or harm; CF. punish |
secrete | conceal; hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism; CF. secretive |
fathomless | too deep to be measured or understood; unfathomable |
sacrosanct | invioably sacred; most sacred; inviolable |
gregarious | sociable; (of an animal) tending to form a group |