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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| throes | pang |
| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |