GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
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|---|---|
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |
| lunar | crescent |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| purse | a small bag for money |