GRE Word List
THRONG
a multitude of assembled persons
The meaning of the word throng is a multitude of assembled persons.
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| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
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| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |