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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| debonair | suave |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |