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 |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| forebears | ancestor |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |