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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |