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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|---|---|
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
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| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
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