GRE Word List
CLAUSTROPHOBIA
abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces
The meaning of the word claustrophobia is abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |