GRE Word List
BLACKBALL
to vote against
The meaning of the word blackball is to vote against.
Random words
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| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |