GRE Word List

POISE

balance

The meaning of the word poise is balance.

Random words

WordMeaning
countermandto revoke (a command) by a contrary order
kneadto work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands
cherubican order of angels see celestial hierarchy
restivestubbornly resisting control : balky
mottledmarked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors
incontinentnot continent: such as
miragean optical (see optical
mirewet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)
tacitexpressed or carried on without words or speech
postmortemdone, occurring, or collected after death