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 |
|---|---|
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| condign | deserved |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |