GRE Word List
DRIVEL
nonsense
The meaning of the word drivel is nonsense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |