GRE Word List
IMBROGLIO
an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding
The meaning of the word imbroglio is an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artful | performed with or showing art or skill |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |