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 |
|---|---|
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| retribution | recompense |