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 |
|---|---|
| fell | skin |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| delve | excavate |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
