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 |
|---|---|
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| granulate | to form or crystallize into grains or granules |
| laud | praise |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |