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
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|---|---|
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| jibe | to be in accord : agree |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |