GRE Word List
VENERABLE
calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments
The meaning of the word venerable is calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |