GRE Word List
BOLSTER
support; reinforce
The meaning of the word bolster is support; reinforce.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pusillanimous | cowardly; lacking courage; fainthearted |
| sensitization | process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance; V. sensitize: make or become sensitive |
| inductive | pertaining to induction or proceeding from the specific to the general |
| sporadic | occurring irregularly; intermittent |
| amnesty | pardon (allowed by government to political criminals) |
| cloister | monastery or convent |
| dainty | delicate; delicately beautiful; fastidious; not easy to please; Ex. dainty movement/dress |
| spawn | lay eggs (in large numbers); produce offspring (in large numbers); N: eggs of aquatic animals |
| lumen | unit of light energy (one candle's worth) |
| protuberance | protrusion; swelling; bulge |
