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 |
|---|---|
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| exude | to ooze out |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |