GRE Word List
EMBROIL
to throw into disorder or confusion
The meaning of the word embroil is to throw into disorder or confusion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| sibling | sib |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |