GRE Word List

FRICTION

the rubbing of one body against another

The meaning of the word friction is the rubbing of one body against another.

Random words

WordMeaning
disengageto release from something that engages or involves
headfirstwith the head foremost
licentiouslacking legal or moral restraints
recuperateto get back : regain
psychosisa serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed
intractablenot easily governed, managed, or directed
pettyhaving secondary rank or importance : minor
factitiousproduced by humans rather than by natural forces
ingenuousshowing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness