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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |