GRE Word List
INTRUDE
to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome
The meaning of the word intrude is to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |