GRE Word List
HEADLONG
headfirst
The meaning of the word headlong is headfirst.
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| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
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| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |