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 |
|---|---|
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| juncture | a point of time |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |