GRE GRE Meaning by word 262

having a hardened covering

concerned with theories rather than their practical applications

deserving a curse

diffusing warmth and friendliness; cordial; genial

used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed

of girls or women who are eligible to marry

devouring or craving food in great quantities; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish

out of fashion; ex; old-fashioned; outmoded

exaggeratedly proper; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straitlaced; strait-laced

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous

lying outside the sphere of morals

obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

novel; unexampled

not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan

made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; lustrous; shining; shiny

an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition (logic)

a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of her actions

a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled; rowboat

easy to get along with or talk to

fixed in place; unchangeable

stubbornly unyielding; persistent; tenacious; unyielding

having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses); swayback; swaybacked

capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; pliant; waxy

having unsuitable feminine qualities; epicene; cissy; sissified; sissyish; sissy

impossible to understand

pertaining to or resembling amoebae; amoeban; amoebous; amebous

very pleasing to the eye; comely; fair; sightly

extremely evil or cruel; diabolical; fiendish; hellish; infernal; satanic; unholy

devoted to a cause or party

characterized by soft sounds; soughing; susurrous