GRE Word List
ATROCITY
a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation
The meaning of the word atrocity is a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |