GRE Word List
DISTRACT
to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time
The meaning of the word distract is to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| lunar | crescent |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |