GRE Word List
GIBE
to utter taunting words
The meaning of the word gibe is to utter taunting words.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| lax | loose |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| imbibe | drink |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |