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 |
|---|---|
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'รฉtat |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
