GRE Word List
BOOST
to push or shove up from below
The meaning of the word boost is to push or shove up from below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |