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 |
|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| exegesis | exposition |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |