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 |
|---|---|
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| chancellor | the secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |