GRE Word List

QUANDARY

a state of perplexity or doubt

The meaning of the word quandary is a state of perplexity or doubt.

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WordMeaning
snickerto laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter
adornto enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects
tillerone that tills : cultivator
angularforming an angle : sharp-cornered
ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
crypta chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground
prosaiccharacteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual
compendiuma brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract
hivea container for housing honeybees
sibyllineany of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)