GRE Word List
UNSIGHTLY
not pleasing to the sight : not comely
The meaning of the word unsightly is not pleasing to the sight : not comely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swill | wash |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| anoint | to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| nib | bill |