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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| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |