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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exchequera department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes
venialof a kind that can be remitted : forgivable
dynamicmarked by usually continuous and productive activity or change
debaseto lower in status, esteem, quality, or character
impuissanceweakness
ineffableincapable of being expressed in words : indescribable
tremulouscharacterized by or affected with trembling or tremors
libertinea freethinker especially in religious matters
extrapolationto predict by projecting past experience or known data
toppleto fall from or as if from being top-heavy