GRE Word List
JUGGERNAUT
a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path
The meaning of the word juggernaut is a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |