GRE Word List
VIAND
an item of food
The meaning of the word viand is an item of food.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |