GRE Word List
FORMIDABLE
causing fear, dread, or apprehension
The meaning of the word formidable is causing fear, dread, or apprehension.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |