GRE Word List
OVERWHELM
upset
The meaning of the word overwhelm is upset.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| alleviate | relieve |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |