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.
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| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |