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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |