GRE Word List
DELVE
excavate
The meaning of the word delve is excavate.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
loft | an upper room or floor : attic |
animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |