GRE Word List
GALL
brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence
The meaning of the word gall is brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |