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 |
|---|---|
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| marginal | written or printed in the margin of a page or sheet |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |