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 |
|---|---|
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
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| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |