GRE Word List
BLACKBALL
to vote against
The meaning of the word blackball is to vote against.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |
| colloquy | conversation |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| drivel | nonsense |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |