GRE Word List
HEADFIRST
with the head foremost
The meaning of the word headfirst is with the head foremost.
Random words
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promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |
emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
reprisal | a retaliatory act |
luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |