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 |
|---|---|
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| spoof | deceive |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |