GRE Word List
CONTORTIONS
to twist in a violent manner
The meaning of the word contortions is to twist in a violent manner.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| espouse | marry |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| welter | writhe |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |