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 |
|---|---|
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| document | proof |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |