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 |
|---|---|
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |