GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |