GRE Word List
IMPLODE
to burst inward
The meaning of the word implode is to burst inward.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |