GRE Word List
PROFOUND
having intellectual depth and insight
The meaning of the word profound is having intellectual depth and insight.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| hallowed | holy |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |