GRE Word List
HARROWING
acutely distressing or painful
The meaning of the word harrowing is acutely distressing or painful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| mendicant | beggar |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |