GRE Word List
ANTICLIMAX
the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
The meaning of the word anticlimax is the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |