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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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| maroon | a dark red |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |