GRE Word List
ANGUISH
extreme pain, distress, or anxiety
The meaning of the word anguish is extreme pain, distress, or anxiety.
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| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |