GRE Word List
LACHRYMOSE
given to tears or weeping : tearful
The meaning of the word lachrymose is given to tears or weeping : tearful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |