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 |
|---|---|
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |