GRE Word List
OSCILLATE
to swing backward and forward like a pendulum
The meaning of the word oscillate is to swing backward and forward like a pendulum.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| purported | reputed |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |