GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |