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 |
|---|---|
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| paramour | lover |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| circlet | a little circle |