GRE Word List
FINISH
to come to an end : terminate
The meaning of the word finish is to come to an end : terminate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| slither | to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| leave-taking | departure |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |