GRE Word List
BILLOW
wave
The meaning of the word billow is wave.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| flounder | flatfish |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |