GRE Word List

CATACLYSM

flood

The meaning of the word cataclysm is flood.

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aeriethe nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop
superciliouscoolly and patronizingly haughty
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
predilectionan established preference for something
angularforming an angle : sharp-cornered
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