GRE Word List
COUPLE
two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired
The meaning of the word couple is two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |