GRE Word List
CONFINE
something (such as borders or walls) that encloses
The meaning of the word confine is something (such as borders or walls) that encloses.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| pitfall | trap |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |