GRE Word List
GLUT
to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand
The meaning of the word glut is to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| condign | deserved |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |