GRE Word List
BROACH
brooch
The meaning of the word broach is brooch.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| congruent | congruous |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |