GRE Word List
TANTRUM
a fit of bad temper
The meaning of the word tantrum is a fit of bad temper.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |