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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| residual | remainder |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| eventual | contingent |