GRE Word List
DILEMMA
a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice
The meaning of the word dilemma is a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| provident | frugal |
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| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
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| spangle | a small plate of shining metal or plastic used for ornamentation especially on clothing |