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 |
|---|---|
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| machinations | an act of machinating |