GRE Word List
HEADFIRST
with the head foremost
The meaning of the word headfirst is with the head foremost.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |