GRE Word List
OUTSKIRTS
a part remote from the center : border
The meaning of the word outskirts is a part remote from the center : border.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |