GRE Word List
AWE
an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime
The meaning of the word awe is an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| politic | political |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |