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 |
|---|---|
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| nourishment | food |
| civil | of or relating to citizens |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |