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 |
|---|---|
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| clip | encompass |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |