GRE Word List
CALAMITY
a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering
The meaning of the word calamity is a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering.
Random words
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|---|---|
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
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| disport | sport |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
