GRE Word List
FALTER
to walk unsteadily : stumble
The meaning of the word falter is to walk unsteadily : stumble.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |