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 |
|---|---|
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| nib | bill |
| parlance | speech |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |