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 |
|---|---|
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| tenacity | the quality or state of being tenacious |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |