GRE Word List
MAELSTROM
a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius
The meaning of the word maelstrom is a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |