GRE Word List
WOEFUL
full of woe : grievous
The meaning of the word woeful is full of woe : grievous.
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flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
decree | an order usually having the force of law |
prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
dowse | to plunge into water |
bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
congenital | existing at or dating from birth |