GRE Word List
EXERTION
the act or an instance of exerting
The meaning of the word exertion is the act or an instance of exerting.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| billow | wave |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| reverberate | reflect |