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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
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