GRE Word List
DELUGE
an overflowing of the land by water
The meaning of the word deluge is an overflowing of the land by water.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |