GRE Word List
CITADEL
a fortress that commands (see command
The meaning of the word citadel is a fortress that commands (see command.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |