GRE Word List
CHOLERIC
easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered
The meaning of the word choleric is easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| emollient | making soft or supple |