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 |
|---|---|
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| query | question |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| ventriloquist | one who uses or is skilled in ventriloquism |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |