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 |
|---|---|
| stench | stink |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| reek | smoke |