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 |
|---|---|
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |