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 |
|---|---|
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| grate | grating |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
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| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |