GRE Word List

BELABOR

to attack verbally

The meaning of the word belabor is to attack verbally.

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provisionalserving for the time being : temporary
carnalrelating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites
peerone that is of equal standing with another : equal
platonicof, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
alludeto make indirect reference
effeteno longer fertile
quibbleto evade the point of an argument by caviling about words
exacerbateto make more violent, bitter, or severe
yieldto bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation