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 |
|---|---|
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| ploy | escapade |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |