GRE Word List

PRODIGIOUS

causing amazement or wonder

The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.

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humusa brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic
subterfugedeception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade
pivotalof, relating to, or constituting a pivot
laceto draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets
requisitionthe act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action
impudencethe quality or state of being impudent
precincta part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district
quoruma select group
briskkeenly alert : lively
platonicof, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism