GRE Word List
PERTURB
to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet
The meaning of the word perturb is to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| imbue | endow |
| denomination | an act of denominating |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| appease | pacify |