GRE Word List
FETTER
a chain or shackle for the feet
The meaning of the word fetter is a chain or shackle for the feet.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| savory | having savor: such as |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| reckon | count |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |