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 |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |