GRE Word List
GARNER
to gather into storage
The meaning of the word garner is to gather into storage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |