GRE Word List
BULWARK
a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart
The meaning of the word bulwark is a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| retrench | cut down |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |