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 |
|---|---|
| pastry | a dough that is used to make pies and other baked goods and typically has a high fat content : paste |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |