GRE Word List
IRREPRESSIBLE
impossible to repress, restrain, or control
The meaning of the word irrepressible is impossible to repress, restrain, or control.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dire | exciting horror |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |