GRE Word List
HUMMOCK
a rounded knoll or hillock
The meaning of the word hummock is a rounded knoll or hillock.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |