GRE Word List
FITFUL
characterized by fits or paroxysms
The meaning of the word fitful is characterized by fits or paroxysms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quarry | game |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |