GRE Word List
BLACKBALL
to vote against
The meaning of the word blackball is to vote against.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| niggle | trifle |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| harass | exhaust |