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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |
| nib | bill |
| concordat | compact |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |