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 |
|---|---|
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |