GRE Word List
CATACLYSM
flood
The meaning of the word cataclysm is flood.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |