GRE Word List
INVERSE
opposite in order, nature, or effect
The meaning of the word inverse is opposite in order, nature, or effect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| 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) |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |