GRE Word List
BASK
to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere
The meaning of the word bask is to lie or relax in a pleasant warmth or atmosphere.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| equitable | having or exhibiting equity : dealing fairly and equally with all concerned |
| 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 |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |