GRE Word List

BILLOWING

wave

The meaning of the word billowing is wave.

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mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
besetto set or stud with or as if with ornaments
aplombcomplete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise
bolstera long pillow or cushion
niggardlygrudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging
rebuffto reject or criticize sharply : snub
coercionthe act, process, or power of coercing
vortexsomething that resembles a whirlpool
mementosomething that serves to warn or remind
scapegoata goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur