GRE Word List
JOSTLE
to come in contact or into collision
The meaning of the word jostle is to come in contact or into collision.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| provenance | origin |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| bigot | a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| 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 |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |