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 |
|---|---|
| overweening | arrogant |
| forlorn | bereft |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| censor | a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as |
| distend | extend |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| significant | having meaning |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |