GRE Word List
PEDDLE
to travel about with wares for sale
The meaning of the word peddle is to travel about with wares for sale.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| dire | exciting horror |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| 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 |
| collateral | property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender |