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 |
|---|---|
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| finery | ornament |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |