GRE Word List
DELVE
excavate
The meaning of the word delve is excavate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |