GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
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| vixen | a female fox |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
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| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| finicky | extremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| convoluted | having convolutions |