GRE Word List
GRUEL
a thin porridge
The meaning of the word gruel is a thin porridge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| grudging | unwilling |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |