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 |
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quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
elusive | tending to elude: such as |
mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
adjacent | not distant : nearby |
inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |