GRE Word List
EDDY
a current of water or air running contrary to the main current
The meaning of the word eddy is a current of water or air running contrary to the main current.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| blackball | to vote against |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| fleck | streak |