GRE Word List
BLACKBALL
to vote against
The meaning of the word blackball is to vote against.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |