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 |
|---|---|
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |