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 |
|---|---|
| passe | past one's prime |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| bank | a mound, pile, or ridge raised above the surrounding level: such as |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |