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 |
|---|---|
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |