GRE Word List
ALIAS
otherwise called : otherwise known as
The meaning of the word alias is otherwise called : otherwise known as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |