GRE Word List
ANGUISH
extreme pain, distress, or anxiety
The meaning of the word anguish is extreme pain, distress, or anxiety.
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Word | Meaning |
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niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
mischance | bad luck |
clime | climate |
drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
quarantine | a period of 40 days |
dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |