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 |
|---|---|
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| purported | reputed |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| vanguard | the forefront of an action or movement |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |