GRE Word List
OVERWHELM
upset
The meaning of the word overwhelm is upset.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| medley | a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |