GRE Word List
CAULK
to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
The meaning of the word caulk is to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| dally | to act playfully |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |