GRE Word List
HURTLE
to move rapidly or forcefully
The meaning of the word hurtle is to move rapidly or forcefully.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| convene | to come together in a body |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |