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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|---|---|
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
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| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |