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 |
|---|---|
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| fabricate | invent |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| oversee | survey |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |