GRE Word List
BID
command; utter (a greeting); offer as a price; N: offer of a price; amount offered; earnest effort to gain something; Ex. bid for freedom
The meaning of the word bid is command; utter (a greeting); offer as a price; N: offer of a price; amount offered; earnest effort to gain something; Ex. bid for freedom.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| galleon | large three-masted sailing ship |
| notoriety | disrepute; ill fame |
| prude | excessively modest or proper person (who is easily shocked by improper things, esp. of a sexual nature); N. prudery; ADJ. prudish: excessively concerned with propriety |
| waver | move or swing back and forth; be uncertain or unsteady in decision or movement; Ex. wavering between accepting and refusing |
| incubus | burden; very worriying problem; mental care; nightmare; male devil; CF. succubus |
| commonplace | ordinary; N: something ordinary or common; trite remark |
| florid | ruddy; (of a complexion) reddish; flowery; very ornate; CF. rose |
| thesis | opinion put forward and supported by reasoned arguments |
| indissoluble | permanent; impossible to dissolve or disintegrate |
| deface | mar; disfigure |
