GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |