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 |
|---|---|
| circlet | a little circle |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| duration | continuance in time |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |