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 |
|---|---|
| cipher | zero |
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| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
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| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
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| flounder | flatfish |