GRE Word List
ADVERSE
acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile
The meaning of the word adverse is acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| plethora | an ample amount or number : abundance |
| 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 |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |