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 |
|---|---|
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |