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 |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| skimp | skimpy |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |