GRE Word List
ORIENT
to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group
The meaning of the word orient is to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |