GRE Word List
HEADFIRST
with the head foremost
The meaning of the word headfirst is with the head foremost.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |