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 |
|---|---|
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| unique | being the only one : sole |