GRE Word List
BOLSTER
a long pillow or cushion
The meaning of the word bolster is a long pillow or cushion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |