GRE Word List

CATACLYSM

flood

The meaning of the word cataclysm is flood.

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humanitariana person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist
continencethe ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily
amissin a mistaken way : wrongly
reclineto cause or permit to incline backwards
aegisa shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena
optimumthe amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end
smudgeto make a smudge on
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
begetto procreate as the father : sire
salientmoving by leaps or springs : jumping