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 |
|---|---|
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| executor | one who executes something |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |