GRE Word List
CONTEST
strive
The meaning of the word contest is strive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guileless | innocent |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |