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 |
|---|---|
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| cipher | zero |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| clip | encompass |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |