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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WordMeaning
reprisala retaliatory act
facilitateto make easier : help bring about
vauntedhighly or widely praised or boasted about
effronteryshameless boldness : insolence
adverseacting against or in a contrary direction : hostile
transposeto change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of
colloquialused in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation
altruisticrelating to or given to altruism:
proteanof or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms
germa small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts