GRE Word List
ALLUDE
to make indirect reference
The meaning of the word allude is to make indirect reference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pummel | pound |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| faculty | ability |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |