GRE Word List
TYPHOON
a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea
The meaning of the word typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| primal | original |