GRE Word List
APPALL
to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay
The meaning of the word appall is to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| purported | reputed |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| peerless | matchless |