GRE Word List
ECSTASY
a state of overwhelming emotion
The meaning of the word ecstasy is a state of overwhelming emotion.
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badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
mausoleum | a large tomb |
engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
shack | hut |
lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |