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 |
|---|---|
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| demise | death |
| stilted | pompous |
| ultimate | last in a progression or series : final |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |