GRE Word List
BAR
a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening)
The meaning of the word bar is a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| 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") |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |