GRE Word List
GROVEL
to creep with the face to the ground : crawl
The meaning of the word grovel is to creep with the face to the ground : crawl.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| slake | subside |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |