GRE Word List
REDOUBTABLE
causing fear or alarm : formidable
The meaning of the word redoubtable is causing fear or alarm : formidable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |