GRE Word List
FORMIDABLE
causing fear, dread, or apprehension
The meaning of the word formidable is causing fear, dread, or apprehension.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |