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 |
|---|---|
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |