GRE Word List
ANATHEMA
someone or something intensely disliked or loathed
The meaning of the word anathema is someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| environ | encircle |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| disconsolate | cheerless |