GRE Word List
HARBOR
a place of security and comfort : refuge
The meaning of the word harbor is a place of security and comfort : refuge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| noisome | noxious |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |