GRE Word List
BASK
luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
The meaning of the word bask is luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |