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 |
|---|---|
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
| unbridled | unrestrained |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |