GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| orient | to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group |
| debonair | suave |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| effete | no longer fertile |