GRE Word List
ANGUISH
extreme pain, distress, or anxiety
The meaning of the word anguish is extreme pain, distress, or anxiety.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| thespian | actor |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |