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 |
|---|---|
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| refrain | curb |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| subsistence | real being : existence |