GRE Word List
GLARE
to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light
The meaning of the word glare is to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |