GRE Word List

PITFALL

trap

The meaning of the word pitfall is trap.

Random words

WordMeaning
effronteryshameless boldness : insolence
intractablenot easily governed, managed, or directed
carnivoroussubsisting or feeding on animal tissues
pervasiveexisting in or spreading through every part of something
fractioustending to be troublesome : unruly
denounceto pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil
secreteto form and give off (a secretion)
macerateto cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting
rhetoricthe art of speaking or writing effectively: such as
concertedmutually contrived or agreed on