GRE Word List
CAPSIZE
to cause to overturn
The meaning of the word capsize is to cause to overturn.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |