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 |
|---|---|
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| fiend | devil |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |