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 |
|---|---|
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |