GRE Word List
THROES
pang
The meaning of the word throes is pang.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |