GRE Word List
GIRTH
a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back
The meaning of the word girth is a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |