GRE Word List
NOURISH
nurture
The meaning of the word nourish is nurture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| calorific | caloric |
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |