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 |
|---|---|
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |