GRE Word List
LATCH
to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms
The meaning of the word latch is to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| grate | grating |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| spoof | deceive |