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 |
|---|---|
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| collate | to compare critically |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |