GRE Word List
MIASMA
a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
The meaning of the word miasma is a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| submerge | to put under water |
| forlorn | bereft |