GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |