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 |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| whimsy | whim |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |