GRE Word List
DISEMBARK
to remove to shore from a ship
The meaning of the word disembark is to remove to shore from a ship.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| deputize | to appoint as deputy |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |