GRE Word List
NURTURE
training
The meaning of the word nurture is training.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| caucus | a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |