GRE Word List
CATASTROPHE
a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin
The meaning of the word catastrophe is a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| microcosm | a little world |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |