GRE Word List
ONSLAUGHT
an especially fierce attack
The meaning of the word onslaught is an especially fierce attack.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| guileless | innocent |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |