GRE Word List
CONUNDRUM
an intricate and difficult problem
The meaning of the word conundrum is an intricate and difficult problem.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| reckon | count |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
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