GRE Word List
TURBID
thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment
The meaning of the word turbid is thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| severity | the quality or state of being severe : the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |