GRE Word List
TANTRUM
a fit of bad temper
The meaning of the word tantrum is a fit of bad temper.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| violate | break |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |