GRE Word List
BIGOT
one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics)
The meaning of the word bigot is one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| espouse | adopt; support (an idea or aim); marry; N. espousal |
| char | make or become black by burning; reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion |
| benediction | blessing |
| tension | stretching; condition of being stretched; mental strain; strained relationship between groups or people |
| unaccountable | unexplicable; impossible to account for; unreasonable or mysterious |
| girth | distance around something; circumference |
| proletarian | member of the working class; blue collar guy; N. proletariat: working class (who have to work for wages) |
| emend | correct (usually a text); N. emendation: correction of errors; improvement |
| anneal | reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass) |
| winnow | sift; separate the chaff from grain by blowing; separate good parts from bad; CF. wind |
