GRE Word List
CONFOUND
to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity
The meaning of the word confound is to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |