GRE Word List
LANCE
a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry
The meaning of the word lance is a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |