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 |
|---|---|
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |