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 |
|---|---|
| outmoded | not being in style |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| niggle | trifle |