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 |
|---|---|
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| etymology | the 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 |
| abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |