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 |
|---|---|
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |