GRE Word List
FOUNDER
one that founds or establishes
The meaning of the word founder is one that founds or establishes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| 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 |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| prowess | distinguished bravery |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |