GRE Word List

FITFUL

characterized by fits or paroxysms

The meaning of the word fitful is characterized by fits or paroxysms.

Random words

WordMeaning
quarrygame
colossusa statue of gigantic size and proportions
threadbarehaving the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby
whelpany of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog
pandemoniuma wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people)
exculpateto clear from alleged fault or guilt
destitutelacking something needed or desirable
cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
centaurany of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly
trajectorythe curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space