GRE Word List
NOOSE
a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn
The meaning of the word noose is a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |