GRE Word List
PAROXYSM
a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion
The meaning of the word paroxysm is a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| plait | pleat |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| dominate | rule |