GRE Word List
LAX
loose
The meaning of the word lax is loose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |