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 |
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| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| engender | beget |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| medium | something in a middle position |