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 |
|---|---|
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| billowing | wave |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| replete | fully or abundantly provided or filled |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |