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 |
|---|---|
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
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