GRE Word List
PITFALL
trap
The meaning of the word pitfall is trap.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| reek | smoke |
| acclaim | applaud |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |