GRE Word List
LAP
a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment
The meaning of the word lap is a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| collage | an artistic composition made of various materials (such as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| adamant | unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| 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 |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |