GRE Word List
APOPLEXY
stroke
The meaning of the word apoplexy is stroke.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| primal | original |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |