GRE Word List
CATACLYSM
flood
The meaning of the word cataclysm is flood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| veracious | truthful |
| apprehend | arrest |
| verge | brink |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| dire | exciting horror |