GRE Word List
HURL
rush
The meaning of the word hurl is rush.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| occident | west |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| billow | wave |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |