GRE Word List

PITFALL

trap

The meaning of the word pitfall is trap.

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WordMeaning
acknowledgeto recognize the rights, authority, or status of
reprisala retaliatory act
veritablebeing in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary
alchemya 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
flusterto put into a state of agitated confusion : upset
reeksmoke
acclaimapplaud
anvila heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)
stereotypeto make a stereotype from
infinitesimalimmeasurably or incalculably small