GRE Word List
DILEMMA
a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice
The meaning of the word dilemma is a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| flashy | lacking in substance or flavor : insipid |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| poise | balance |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |