GRE Word List
IMPLODE
to burst inward
The meaning of the word implode is to burst inward.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| charlatan | quack |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |