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 |
|---|---|
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |