GRE Word List
OVERTHROW
overturn
The meaning of the word overthrow is overturn.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| natal | native |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |