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 |
|---|---|
| pudding | blood sausage |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |