GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| clown | farmer |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |