GRE Word List
GALE
a strong current of air:
The meaning of the word gale is a strong current of air:.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |