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 |
|---|---|
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |