GRE Word List
HEADFIRST
with the head foremost
The meaning of the word headfirst is with the head foremost.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| distort | to twist (see twist |