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 |
|---|---|
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |