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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| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| convention | agreement |
| progeny | descendants |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| reverberate | reflect |
| seasonable | suitable to the season or circumstances : timely |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |