GRE Word List
ACUTE
characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset
The meaning of the word acute is characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| dull | tedious |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |