GRE Word List
BLACKBALL
to vote against
The meaning of the word blackball is to vote against.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| minuscule | very small |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |