GRE Word List
WOE
a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief
The meaning of the word woe is a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| conglomerate | made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |