GRE Word List
CONSTRUE
to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part)
The meaning of the word construe is to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| cuisine | manner of preparing food : style of cooking |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |