GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| wanton | merciless |
| 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 |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |