GRE Word List
UPROARIOUS
marked by uproar
The meaning of the word uproarious is marked by uproar.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hubbub | noise |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |