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 |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| august | marked by majestic dignity or grandeur |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |