GRE Word List
FORSAKE
to renounce or turn away from entirely
The meaning of the word forsake is to renounce or turn away from entirely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |