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 |
|---|---|
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |