GRE Word List

POISE

balance

The meaning of the word poise is balance.

Random words

WordMeaning
sterilefailing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores
yoretime past and especially long past
tactileperceptible by touch : tangible
psychosisa serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions
wantonmerciless
scapegoata 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
cohereto hold together firmly as parts of the same mass
arborealof, relating to, or resembling a tree
teneta principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
expungeto strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion