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 |
|---|---|
| actuary | clerk |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| oligarchy | government by the few |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| betroth | to promise to marry |