GRE Word List

OVERWHELM

upset

The meaning of the word overwhelm is upset.

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WordMeaning
alimentaryof or relating to nourishment or nutrition
depredationto lay waste : plunder
temporizeto act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion
bureaucracya body of nonelected government officials
restitutionan act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as
soliloquythe act of talking to oneself
spatsquabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel
dioramaa scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening
functionaryone who serves in a certain function
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin