GRE Word List
CONSOLE
an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament
The meaning of the word console is an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| impuissance | weakness |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |