GRE Word List
EXHORT
to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly
The meaning of the word exhort is to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |