GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |