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 |
|---|---|
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |