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 |
|---|---|
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| overweening | arrogant |
| clip | encompass |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
