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 |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |