GRE Word List

APOPLEXY

stroke

The meaning of the word apoplexy is stroke.

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WordMeaning
hoaxto trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
dooma law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England
engagedinvolved in activity : occupied
ballasta 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)
decryto depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly
primaloriginal
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
loathunwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant
skirmisha minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements
aberrantdeviating from the usual or natural type : atypical