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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martyra person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion
embedto enclose closely in or as if in a matrix
vitalof the utmost importance
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runicany of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries
pulpitan elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service
precipitousprecipitate
susceptiblecapable of submitting to an action, process, or operation
stagnantnot flowing in a current or stream
shama trick that deludes : hoax