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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |