GRE Word List
DRAB
slattern
The meaning of the word drab is slattern.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defalcate | deduct |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| invalid | not valid: |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |