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 |
|---|---|
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| cadaver | a dead body |