GRE Word List
ABSCOND
to depart secretly and hide oneself
The meaning of the word abscond is to depart secretly and hide oneself.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |