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 |
|---|---|
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |