GRE Word List
BASK
luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
The meaning of the word bask is luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth.
Random words
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officious | meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services; overly eager in offering unwanted services or advices; Ex. officious bellboy |
forswear | renounce under oath; abandon; make a solemn promise to give up; CF. abjure |
bestow | confer |
impasse | predicament(dangerous condition) from which there is no escape; situation allowing for no further progress |
elaboration | addition of details; intricacy |
nautical | pertaining to ships or navigation |
tyranny | oppression; cruel government; ADJ. tyrannical: of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic; V. tyrannize: treat tyrannically; oppress |
lot | object used in making a determination at random; fate; piece of land |
denigrate | blacken; defame |
pseudonym | pen name; fictitious name assumed by an author; ADJ. pseudonymous |