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 |
|---|---|
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| condole | grieve |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| arid | excessively dry |
| verge | brink |