GRE Word List
DISTRAUGHT
agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain
The meaning of the word distraught is agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| 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 |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| rift | fissure |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |