GRE Word List
PANG
a brief piercing spasm of pain
The meaning of the word pang is a brief piercing spasm of pain.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| opus | work |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |