GRE Word List
ODYSSEY
a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
The meaning of the word odyssey is a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune.
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| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
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| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
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| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
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| irate | roused to ire |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |