GRE Word List
WOEFUL
full of woe : grievous
The meaning of the word woeful is full of woe : grievous.
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| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| chafe | irritate |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |