GRE Word List
CONSTERNATION
amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion
The meaning of the word consternation is amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion.
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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| exuberance | the quality or state of being exuberant |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
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