GRE Word List
PLUMMET
to fall perpendicularly
The meaning of the word plummet is to fall perpendicularly.
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|---|---|
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| garner | to gather into storage |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| throes | pang |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |