GRE Word List
HOVEL
an open shed or shelter
The meaning of the word hovel is an open shed or shelter.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |