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 |
|---|---|
| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| spoof | deceive |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |