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 |
|---|---|
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| residual | remainder |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |