GRE Word List
OUTSTRIP
to go faster or farther than
The meaning of the word outstrip is to go faster or farther than.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| clique | a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons |
| beatific | of, possessing, or imparting beatitude |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |