GRE Word List
EXTRICATE
free from an entanglement or difficulty; disentangle
The meaning of the word extricate is free from an entanglement or difficulty; disentangle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unceremonious | not done politely without due formalities |
| eon | long period of time; an age; longest division of geologic time containing two or more eras |
| subtlety | perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy; ADJ. subtle: delicate; so slight as to be difficult to detect; able to make fine distinctions; clever; Ex. subtle mind/differences in meaning |
| nib | beak(bill); pen point |
| idyll | short poem idealizing rural life; simple happy period of life (in the country); scene from such a time; Ex. idyll of two young lovers |
| sacrosanct | invioably sacred; most sacred; inviolable |
| abrogate | abolish |
| lucid | easily understood; clear; intelligible; N. lucidity |
| whimsical | capricious; fanciful; amusingly strange |
| irrevocable | unalterable; irreversible; impossible to revoke |