GRE GRE Meaning by word 313

injurious to physical or mental health

marked by refinement in taste and manners; cultivated; cultured; polite

petty or reluctant in giving or spending; scrimy

characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is

using or containing too many words; windy; wordy

(used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; implanted; planted

guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; practical

fragmentary from emotional strain

unpleasant to look at

characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy

worthy of religious veneration

hand-woven

(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; rueful; ruthful

marked by utter benignity; saintlike; saintly; sainted

intangible; unconnected to concrete reality

characterized by ascetic solitude; eremitical; hermitic; hermitical

characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; emaciated; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted

ex; old-fashioned; passe; passee

having or causing a whirling sensation; vertiginous

showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony

marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed

showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping

required by obligation or compulsion or convention

pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space

varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; iridescent; shot

having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated

exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky

inconceivably extended in space or time