GRE Word List
BEARING
deportment; connection
The meaning of the word bearing is deportment; connection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fallow | (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality); uncultivated |
| saturnine | morose; gloomy; Ex. Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance. |
| vestige | trace; remains; Ex. vestiges of some ancient religion |
| dazzle | make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder |
| mortify | humiliate by embarassing excessively; shame; punish the flesh; discipline (one's body) by self-denial; Ex. mortified by her blunder; Ex. mortify the flesh; CF. cause to die |
| waive | give up temporarily; yield; N. waiver: waiving a right or claim; document that waives a right or claim |
| despoil | plunder; sack; Ex. despoil the village |
| pedagogue | teacher; CF. child leader |
| motif | theme; recurrent thematic element in a musical or literary work; single or repeated pattern; figure |
| nomenclature | terminology(system of specialized words); system of names or naming things |
