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 |
|---|---|
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| collate | to compare critically |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| cadaver | a dead body |