GRE Word List
OVERWHELM
upset
The meaning of the word overwhelm is upset.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alimentary | of or relating to nourishment or nutrition |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| restitution | an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| gyroscope | a 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 |