GRE Word List
EMBROIL
to throw into disorder or confusion
The meaning of the word embroil is to throw into disorder or confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| 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 |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |