GRE Word List

THROES

pang

The meaning of the word throes is pang.

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WordMeaning
retrenchcut down
prudea person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum
rivetinghaving the power to fix the attention : engrossing
enigmasomething hard to understand or explain
tentativenot fully worked out or developed
inviolablesecure from violation or profanation
dwindleto become steadily less : shrink
raila bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier
imminentready to take place : happening soon
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work