GRE Word List
THROES
pang
The meaning of the word throes is pang.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| brawny | muscular |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |