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 |
|---|---|
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
