GRE Word List
UPROAR
a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance
The meaning of the word uproar is a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |