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 |
|---|---|
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| countenance | look |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| kismet | fate |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |