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
juggernauta massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path
draconianof, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him
precludeto make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance
shavingthe act of one that shaves
far-fetchedbrought from a remote time or place
entreatto plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently
irrelevantnot relevant : inapplicable
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
abetto actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan)
anathemasomeone or something intensely disliked or loathed