GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| reckon | count |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |