GRE Word List
EXTRICATE
to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty
The meaning of the word extricate is to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |