GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |