GRE Word List
FRUSTRATE
to balk or defeat in an endeavor
The meaning of the word frustrate is to balk or defeat in an endeavor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |