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 |
|---|---|
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| privy | private |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |