GRE Word List
QUALMS
a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety
The meaning of the word qualms is a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |