GRE Word List
BRINK
edge
The meaning of the word brink is edge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| residual | remainder |