GRE Word List
CATACLYSM
flood
The meaning of the word cataclysm is flood.
Random words
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| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
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| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
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| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
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