GRE Word List
GORGE
a narrow passage through land
The meaning of the word gorge is a narrow passage through land.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| demented | mad |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| dilute | attenuate |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |