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 |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| drama | a composition (see composition |