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 |
|---|---|
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| engulf | to flow over and enclose : overwhelm |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |