GRE Word List
BOG
wet spongy ground
The meaning of the word bog is wet spongy ground.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| concentric | having a common center |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
| raspy | harsh |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| pugilist | fighter |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |