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 |
|---|---|
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| growl | rumble |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |