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 |
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| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| dynamo | generator |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |