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 |
|---|---|
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| alleviate | relieve |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| seemly | good-looking |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |