GRE Word List
MAVERICK
an unbranded range animal
The meaning of the word maverick is an unbranded range animal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advocacy | the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating (see advocate |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| evenhanded | fair |
| refrain | curb |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |