GRE Word List
IMBROGLIO
an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding
The meaning of the word imbroglio is an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |