GRE Word List
IMBROGLIO
an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding
The meaning of the word imbroglio is an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| occident | west |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |