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 |
|---|---|
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| commune | talk over |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |