GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |