GRE Word List
POISE
balance
The meaning of the word poise is balance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |