GRE Word List
THROES
pang
The meaning of the word throes is pang.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |