GRE Word List
CIRCUIT
a usually circular line encompassing an area
The meaning of the word circuit is a usually circular line encompassing an area.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |