GRE Word List
BESET
to set or stud with or as if with ornaments
The meaning of the word beset is to set or stud with or as if with ornaments.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |