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 |
|---|---|
| doddering | feeble |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| pending | during |
| facade | the front of a building |
| ensconce | shelter |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |