GRE Word List
BILK
to block the free development of : frustrate
The meaning of the word bilk is to block the free development of : frustrate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| lunar | crescent |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |