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 |
|---|---|
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |