GRE Word List
BLACKBALL
to vote against
The meaning of the word blackball is to vote against.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| concatenate | linked together |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |