GRE Word List
CATACLYSM
flood
The meaning of the word cataclysm is flood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anarchist | a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| mortician | undertaker |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| fulcrum | prop |