GRE Word List
SWELTER
to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat
The meaning of the word swelter is to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| lampoon | satire |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |