GRE Word List
GENUFLECT
to bend the knee
The meaning of the word genuflect is to bend the knee.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |