GRE Word List
GROUCH
a fit of bad temper
The meaning of the word grouch is a fit of bad temper.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |