GRE Word List
ABYSMAL
bottomless
The meaning of the word abysmal is bottomless.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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tumult | commotion of a great crowd; riot; noise; uproar; ADJ. tumultuous: noisy and disorderly |
querulous | given to complaining; complaining; fretful; whining |
reckon | count; calculate; regard as; think; suppose |
inviolable | secure from corruption, attack, or violation(or profanation); unassailable; Ex. inviolable oath/rights; N. inviolability |
complaisant | trying to please; obliging; willing to please others |
prefigure | be a sign of; foreshadow |
disaffected | disloyal; lacking loyality; V. disaffect: cause to lose affection or loyalty |
metaphor | implied comparison; CF. simile |
adorn | decorate |
umbrage | resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult; Ex. take umbrage at his rudeness |