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.
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| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| 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 |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |