GRE Word List
BILLOW
wave
The meaning of the word billow is wave.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |