GRE Word List
GRIEVANCE
a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance
The meaning of the word grievance is a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| belabor | to attack verbally |