GRE Word List
QUAGMIRE
soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot
The meaning of the word quagmire is soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| ogle | to glance with amorous invitation or challenge |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |