GRE Word List
EXIGENCY
that which is required in a particular situation
The meaning of the word exigency is that which is required in a particular situation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| demise | death |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| fleck | streak |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |