GRE Word List
TURMOIL
a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion
The meaning of the word turmoil is a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quicksilver | mercury |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |