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 |
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| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |