GRE Word List
FOIL
to prevent from attaining an end : defeat
The meaning of the word foil is to prevent from attaining an end : defeat.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |