GRE Word List
BILLOWING
wave
The meaning of the word billowing is wave.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mange | any 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 |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| scapegoat | a 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 |