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 |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| trappings | outward signs |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |