GRE Word List
COG
a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear
The meaning of the word cog is a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| conspire | plot |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |