GRE Word List
OVERWHELM
upset
The meaning of the word overwhelm is upset.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| implode | to burst inward |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |