GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
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|---|---|
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
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| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |