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 |
|---|---|
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| refrain | curb |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| recast | to cast again |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |