GRE Word List
RESORT
one that affords aid or refuge : resource
The meaning of the word resort is one that affords aid or refuge : resource.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |