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 |
|---|---|
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| endear | to cause to become beloved or admired |