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 |
|---|---|
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| poise | balance |