GRE Word List
QUANDARY
a state of perplexity or doubt
The meaning of the word quandary is a state of perplexity or doubt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |