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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| cubicle | a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room |
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| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |