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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| dominate | rule |
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| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
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| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |