GRE Word List
ONSLAUGHT
an especially fierce attack
The meaning of the word onslaught is an especially fierce attack.
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|---|---|
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| clip | encompass |
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| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| phenomena | phenomenon |