GRE Word List
HACKLES
hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's hackles rise
The meaning of the word hackles is hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's hackles rise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chalice | goblet; consecrated cup |
| gibberish | nonsense; nonsensical or unintelligible talk or writing; babbling |
| functionary | official (who performs a particular function) |
| apparition | ghost; phantom |
| repast | meal; feast; banquet |
| profligate | wasteful (of money); dissipated; wildly immoral; dissolute; N: profligate person; N. profligacy |
| magnate | person of prominence or influence; powerful or influential person (in business or industry); Ex. oil magnate |
| concede | admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant; Ex. concede a goal |
| celibate | abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
| stultify | make stupid in mind; cause to appear or become stupid or inconsistent; suppress; frustrate or hinder; Ex. stultifying effect of uninteresting work; Ex. stultify free expression |
