GRE Word List
HELM
a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering
The meaning of the word helm is a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |