GRE Word List
THROES
pang
The meaning of the word throes is pang.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| nourish | nurture |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| festive | of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |