GRE Word List
OVERWHELM
upset
The meaning of the word overwhelm is upset.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |